A Survey of Efficient Storage Management in LLM Serving
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Zebin Ren
Ph.D. student, Vrije University Amsterdam
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Storage
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Storage-Based Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search: What are the Performance, Cost, and I/O Characteristics?
2025 IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization (IISWC)
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Does Linux Provide Performance Isolation for NVMe SSDs? Configuring cgroups for I/O Control in the NVMe Era
2025 IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization (IISWC)
An I/O Characterizing Study of Offloading LLM Models and KV Caches to NVMe SSD
5th Workshop on Challenges and Opportunities of Efficient and Performant Storage Systems (CHEOPS'25) @ EuroSys 2025
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Exploring GPU-to-GPU Communication Insights into Supercomputer Interconnects
2024 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC24)
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Exploring I/O Management Performance in ZNS with ConfZNS++
Proceedings of the 17th ACM International Systems and Storage Conference (SYSTOR'24)
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A Systematic Configuration Space Exploration of the Linux Kyber I/O Scheduler
Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing Performance (HotCloudPerf'24@ICPE'24)
ZWAL: Rethinking Write-ahead Logs for ZNS SSDs with Zone Appends
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
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ZWAL: Rethinking Write-ahead Logs for ZNS SSDs with Zone Appends
4th Workshop on Challenges and Opportunities of Efficient and Performant Storage Systems (CHEOPS'24) @ EuroSys 2024
BFQ, Multiqueue-Deadline, or Kyber? Performance Characterization of Linux Storage Schedulers in the NVMe Era
ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE 24)
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Storage-Based Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search: What are the Performance, Cost, and I/O Characteristics?
2025 IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization (IISWC)
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Cite
Does Linux Provide Performance Isolation for NVMe SSDs? Configuring cgroups for I/O Control in the NVMe Era
2025 IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization (IISWC)
An I/O Characterizing Study of Offloading LLM Models and KV Caches to NVMe SSD
5th Workshop on Challenges and Opportunities of Efficient and Performant Storage Systems (CHEOPS'25) @ EuroSys 2025
PDF
Cite
Exploring GPU-to-GPU Communication Insights into Supercomputer Interconnects
2024 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC24)
PDF
Cite
Exploring I/O Management Performance in ZNS with ConfZNS++
Proceedings of the 17th ACM International Systems and Storage Conference (SYSTOR'24)
PDF
Cite
A Systematic Configuration Space Exploration of the Linux Kyber I/O Scheduler
Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing Performance (HotCloudPerf'24@ICPE'24)
ZWAL: Rethinking Write-ahead Logs for ZNS SSDs with Zone Appends
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
PDF
Cite
ZWAL: Rethinking Write-ahead Logs for ZNS SSDs with Zone Appends
4th Workshop on Challenges and Opportunities of Efficient and Performant Storage Systems (CHEOPS'24) @ EuroSys 2024
BFQ, Multiqueue-Deadline, or Kyber? Performance Characterization of Linux Storage Schedulers in the NVMe Era
ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE 24)
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An I/O Characterizing Study of Offloading LLM Models and KV Caches to NVMe SSD
CHEOPS'25, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, March 31, 2025
A Systematic Configuration Space Exploration of the Linux Kyber I/O Scheduler
HotCloudPerf'24, London, May 11, 2024
BFQ, Multiqueue-Deadline, or Kyber? Performance Characterization of Linux Storage Schedulers in the NVMe Era
ICPE'24, London, May 7-11, 2024
Performance Characterization of Modern Storage Stacks: POSIX I/O, libaio, SPDK, and io_uring
CHEOPS'23, Rome, Italy, May 8, 2023
An I/O Characterizing Study of Offloading LLM Models and KV Caches to NVMe SSD
CHEOPS'25, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, March 31, 2025
A Systematic Configuration Space Exploration of the Linux Kyber I/O Scheduler
HotCloudPerf'24, London, May 11, 2024
BFQ, Multiqueue-Deadline, or Kyber? Performance Characterization of Linux Storage Schedulers in the NVMe Era
ICPE'24, London, May 7-11, 2024
Performance Characterization of Modern Storage Stacks: POSIX I/O, libaio, SPDK, and io_uring
CHEOPS'23, Rome, Italy, May 8, 2023
Teaching
Storage Systems, MSc, VU (2020-ongoing)
Storage Systems, MSc, VU (2020-ongoing)